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A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.
Amory Lovins
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Amory Lovins
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 13
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Amory B. Lovins
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Today we have a temporary aberration called industrial capitalism which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.
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We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
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If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
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What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
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By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.
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Nature does not compromise a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!
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We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
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Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.
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The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
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Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.
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Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.
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The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.
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Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
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Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.
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The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.
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If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
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Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
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